The Syrian Ministry of Justice announced on Wednesday, September 3, that it has removed “millions” of notices registered in the system of asset seizures and travel bans against Syrians.
Mohammad Samer al-Abed, the ministry’s government liaison officer, told the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) that the ministry is working to process the notices recorded in the travel-ban system, most of which date back to the past 14 years.
He confirmed that millions of cases have already been cleared, while work continues on the remaining files.
Al-Abed attributed the delay in resolving some cases to the sheer number of names, data overlap, and the absence of prior digitization of records. He also cited the loss of paper files for many cases, which required the cooperation of specialized teams from the Ministries of Interior and Finance.
He added that the remaining notices largely concern ordinary criminal cases or civil and administrative matters.
The ministry’s instructions, he said, stipulate that travelers should not be detained upon arrival but only informed to settle their legal status, unless there are active lawsuits filed by the Public Prosecution.
According to testimonies gathered by Enab Baladi, Syrians traveling through land crossings and airports often face obstacles due to lawsuits and notices, most of which are linked to past political positions against the former Syrian regime. Many have been forced to return to government offices to have these notices lifted, incurring losses from canceled tickets or enduring delays that sometimes extend for days due to congestion at government centers.
Millions of wanted individuals
Syrian Interior Minister Anas Khattab said last June that the ministry had canceled most of the security wanted lists, leaving only those pursued for judicial and criminal reasons. He noted that nearly one-third of Syria’s population had once been wanted by branches of the former regime’s security apparatus.
Khattab added in an interview with state-run al-Ikhbariya TV that the ministry was “shocked” to find millions of reports in the archives of Political Security that had harmed citizens, pointing out that the previous regime required all procedures to pass through the Interior Ministry and security agencies.
The ministry, he said, is now working to eliminate many of these outdated procedures and reduce security interference in daily life.
Meanwhile, the head of the Immigration and Passports Department in Damascus, Walid Arabi, told Enab Baladi in April that the department had received instructions from the Interior Ministry regarding travel-ban measures listed in the “criminal record.”
Arabi explained that the department removed more than 50% of the travel-ban and exit-prevention measures that had applied to over eight million Syrians, stressing that this issue is being addressed “automatically.”
He noted, however, that those who joined the revolution remain pursued under criminal and judicial charges. The former regime deliberately attached criminal accusations to detainees when pressured internationally to release them for political reasons, he said. This meant political charges were dropped while detainees continued to face judicial pursuit.
According to Arabi, the criminal security branch is still in the process of being reactivated, and the judiciary needs more time to function effectively in reviewing these cases. He added that neither the Interior Ministry nor the Immigration Department can remove all criminal and judicial charges from the record, as doing so could compromise personal rights in cases involving murder and theft.
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